From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 13:38:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3F516A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:38:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA13143D55 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:38:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F3D1AA23 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:38:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:38:44 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: ILKbT0b8bL+G1DtSj9nW6Zgt8gc38QtGR20QD8O9p0PN 1133444322 Received: from gumby.localdomain (88-104-192-181.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.104.192.181]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB8C571483 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:38:41 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:38:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511281206.57300.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200511292002.09257.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <200511291253.03997.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511291253.03997.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512011338.41895.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 60 question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:38:47 -0000 On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:52, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, the author RW contributed to the > dialogue on- > > Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:53, Vizion wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 07:16, the author RW contributed to the > >> dialogue on- > >> > >> Re: Upgrading to 60 question.: > >> >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> >> The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you > >> >> get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of > >> >> the old ones. > >> > > >> >One exception is nvidia-driver, you must remove the driver from > >> > loader.conf and rebuild against 6.0 before re-enabling it. > >> > >> Umph > >> > >> just checked loader.conf and the file is blank > >> > >> Man nv(4) refers to the nvidia driver - I am not certain where/how the > >> driver is being loaded -- X must be using it! > >> any ideas? > > > >nv is the open-source driver. It's nvidia's own driver (in the > >x11/nvidia-driver port) that's causes a problem. > >_______________________________________________ > > nvidia-driver and nvidia-setting are in /dev but I do not know where they > are loaded from! Don't worry unless you have the x11/nvidia-driver installed and nvidia_load=YES in loader.conf.